Following four successful trials in the UK, First Hydrogen will configure a left-hand drive variant of its hydrogen-powered fuel cell light commercial vehicle. The goal is to offer the FCEV in the US, Mexico, South America and Europe. Read more…

The first of seven planned EV fast-charging stations, part of the MetroCHARGE project, has gone into operation in Barcelona. It is powered exclusively by energy recovered during the metro trains’ braking process and from photovoltaic panels installed on all available roofs of the metro stations. Read more…

Liebherr and Fortescue have announced plans to develop and validate an autonomous transport solution that is to be integrated into an electric dump truck. Read more…

After Huawei and Xiaomi, another Chinese smartphone manufacturer is planning to enter the electric car business: Meizu is owned by the Geely Group and wants to launch its first electric car this year, which will be based on the Geely SEA platform. Read more…

The Nantes Métropole municipal association has commissioned Iveco to supply 70 Heuliez electric buses, including standard vehicles and articulated buses. They will be used in and around Nantes, France, in the so-called Naolib network. Read more…

The young Scottish airline Ecojet, which plans to start operations at the end of the year, has signed a contract for the purchase of 22 hydrogen-electric ZA2000 engines from ZeroAvia. The engines are to be retrofitted in turboprop aircraft with 40 to 80 seats. Read more…

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has successfully completed its European tour with the eActros 600. After a 45-day all-electric development tour through a total of 22 countries, the two near-production prototypes of the Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 have arrived back in Wörth am Rhein – with 15,000 kilometres more on the clock. Read more…

The company Librec is building Switzerland’s first large recycling plant for electric car batteries in Biberist (canton of Solothurn). A new hall has been built for this purpose on the site of a former paper factory. From the end of October, Librec plans to recycle 12,000 tonnes of electric car batteries per year in Biberist. Read more…

The South Pasadena Police Department says that it is the only law enforcement agency in the US to replace its entire fleet with electric vehicles. The needed charges were also installed. Read more…

Anne-Catherine Brieux will be responsible for the four plants of Renault’s EV division Ampere from 1 August. She takes over as VP Industrial Operations from Luciano Biondo, who is leaving the company. Read more…

The revised Opel Zafira Electric can now be ordered. Prices in Germany start from €47,550 net, more than €15,000 less than previously announced. However, the new starting price also strongly influences the standard equipment. Read more…

Kia has published the prices for the EV3 in the UK and the Netherlands. We now also know how far the 4.30-metre compact SUV can go between charges. Read more…

Jabil calls itself “the brand behind the brand.” The company manufactures for all sorts of other companies, including OEMs and charging station providers. And as Business Unit Director Friedel Meyer explains in our interview, they are ready to ramp up production of about any new technology in a flash. Read more…

Ubiden, an EV charging service provider in Japan, plans to install 150,000 EV chargers at residences in the country. It will facilitate mostly condominiums with these EV chargers. Read more…

UK ferry operator Red Funnel has announced plans to launch a high-performance electric ferry that will operate between Southampton and West Cowes on the Isle of Wight towards the end of 2025. Read more…

Tesla warns against a new ‘trick’ that has been circulating on the internet, in which a wet towel is placed around the Supercharger connector to speed up the charging process. The wet towel cools it down and should – theoretically – prevent the Supercharger from reducing the charging power due to overheating. Read more…

The US electric car manufacturer Lucid has signed a supply agreement with Graphite One for synthetic active anode materials for its vehicle batteries. The graphite materials and battery anodes are to be mined and built entirely in the USA. Read more…

According to an analysis by the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), almost 42 million battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids were on the road worldwide at the end of 2023. Even if individual markets are developing slower than before, the momentum of electric mobility continues, according to the ZSW. Read more…

The Belgian materials technology and recycling group Umicore wants to review its plans for a cathode material factory in Loyalist, Canada, and is putting investment in the construction on hold until further notice. The plant was originally scheduled to go into operation at the end of 2025. Read more…

The German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) has cleared the way for the software joint venture between Volkswagen and the US electric car manufacturer Rivian, announced around a month ago, under merger control law. The green light was also given for VW’s minority stake in Rivian. Read more…